ERROR IN EXCEL

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Aragorn

HI:

i have a little problem with excel: i open an excel file and after making a
few changes i try to save it but i can't because they program tell me:
"impossible to save, a temporal copy have been created "

Any idea about this little head-breaker?

Thanks!!!
 
Perchance are you doing this from a floppy disk? If so, never work from a
floppy. Copy to the HD, work on it there, save on the HD and copy back to
the floppy.
 
No the files are saved in a SErver, in a hard drive location where files are
saved!!!!!
 
Aragorn,

I'm not sure, but the times I had the same problem in a serverarea, it was
caused by the fact that i reached the limits of my (allowed)
storagecapacity.
Strange enough Excel then can't save the file, but it can save that file as
a temporary file (which actually is the file itself).

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When excel saves a file, it actually creates a new file (that funny named
temporary file). If everything goes correctly, then it comes back and deletes
the original and renames the new file to the original's name.

I'm not sure how excel would need more space to delete the original (after it
finished the temporary file stuff).

But I don't know enough about windows to know if how the deletion of a file
works and how much "breathing room" (my inaccurate term) windows needs (if any)
to delete a file.
 
When excel saves your file, it saves it as a temporary file with a funny name.

If the save is successful, xl will delete the original and if that's successful,
xl will rename the funny named file to the original's name.

Common things that get blamed for interruptions to this process are antivirus
software poking its head in or network errors--either permissions or physical
problems.

Until you (or your IT department) determine the problem (and fix it!), I'd save
to my local harddrive and use windows explorer to copy to the network share.
 
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